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| ► Title→ |
Applied
Limnology
Comprehensive View from Watershed
to Lake |
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Author [s]→ |
Mohammadreza
Gharibreza
Muhammad Aqeel Ashraf |
► Publisher &
Year: |
Springer / 2014 |
► Pages:
تعداد صفحات |
216 |
| ► ISBN→ |
978-4-431-54979-6
/ eBook: 978-4-431-54980-2 |
| ► Description: |
A
multidisciplinary study of Bera Lake in
Malaysia is presented here, focusing on
natural resources throughout the lake’s
catchment area and assessing environmental
impact. This applied limnology study
examines issues relating to land development
including soil erosion and nutrient loss in
the catchment area, severe pollution of
water, sediment resources in open waters and
wetlands, and reduction of aquatic and bird
populations. The chapters provide a
comprehensive view of problems, risks and
possible mitigation measures associated with
this great natural habitat. The book
highlights the technology and methods used
to estimate both soil erosion rate and
nutrient loss from the lake catchment,
including an explanation of the measurement
of the sedimentation rate in Bera Lake using
137Cs and 210Pb radioisotopes. The author
examines the current and historic situation
of contamination in sediments, presents an
ecological risk assessment, and finally
describes a master management plan,
proposing practices to mitigate the
environmental impacts of existing
agricultural projects and practices to
control future projects. Readers will learn
of a decrease in the watershed supply of
water to Bera Lake, of shoaling, degradation
of water and sediment quality, and the
extinction of several kinds of flora and
fauna. This volume also offers an approach
to sustainable land use with regard to
natural resources conservation. |
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